deciding UFS vs ZFS

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

use UFS as long as you are working with a single disk and ZFS the
moment you have more than one disk.

Erich

On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 15:03:08 -0400
"Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas at michaelwlucas.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We have two 'big' filesystems, UFS and ZFS. How do people decide when
> to use which? I'm trying to build a "decision matrix" of when to use
> each.
> 
> My virtualization system runs KVM, so I use UFS on VMs. Restoring
> ZFS disk images via dd can be problematic.
> 
> For larger boxes running on real iron, I use ZFS.
> 
> But there's a whole range of conditions between these two. And the way
> to fill in the gray spaces is to ask.
> 
> So, how do you decide to use which filesystem?
> 
> ==ml
>